Business Security How CISOs and their peers can better engage with boards to get long-term buy-in for strategic initiatives Phil Muncaster 11 Oct 2023 • , 4 min. read Building a safer digital world requires action on several fronts. Initiatives like Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CSAM) are great opportunities to remind the general public of important
Oct 13, 2023NewsroomEndpoint Security / Cyber Attack European Union military personnel and political leaders working on gender equality initiatives have emerged as the target of a new campaign that delivers an updated version of RomCom RAT called PEAPOD. Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro attributed the attacks to a threat actor it tracks under the name Void
CISO salary growth has slowed with 20% receiving no raise at all in 2023, according to a new study by IANS Research and Artico Search. The research found an average total compensation increase of 11% over the past 12 months. This represents a reduction of 14% from the previous year. The average base salary increase
Cybercrime Security researchers, global organizations, law enforcement and other government agencies need to have the right conversations and test potential scenarios without the pressure of an actual attack Cameron Camp 11 Oct 2023 • , 3 min. read Squashing malware groups involves imposing steep costs on small ad hoc groups. But those actions are slowly
A malicious package hosted on the NuGet package manager for the .NET Framework has been found to deliver a remote access trojan called SeroXen RAT. The package, named Pathoschild.Stardew.Mod.Build.Config and published by a user named Disti, is a typosquat of a legitimate package called Pathoschild.Stardew.ModBuildConfig, software supply chain security firm Phylum said in a report
In a recent security alert, the team behind the popular open-source tool curl has announced the release of fixes for two vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-38545 and CVE-2023-38546. Today’s release marks a crucial step in addressing these security concerns. Curl, a command-line tool for data transfer supporting various network protocols, plays a vital role in countless applications, with
Digital Security Late nights at VB2023 featured intriguing interactions between security experts and the somewhat enigmatic world of grayware purveyors Cameron Camp 10 Oct 2023 • , 3 min. read Late night at VB2023 is when the goblins come out – crafted visages of carefully-played fans cum lures foisted by the industry of potentially unwanted
Oct 11, 2023NewsroomWebsite Security / Hacking More than 17,000 WordPress websites have been compromised in the month of September 2023 with malware known as Balada Injector, nearly twice the number of detections in August. Of these, 9,000 of the websites are said to have been infiltrated using a recently disclosed security flaw in the tagDiv
Flagstar Bank, a prominent Michigan-based financial services provider, has warned 837,390 of its US customers about a data breach that occurred through a third-party service provider, Fiserv. The breach exposed the personal information of a substantial number of customers. It was traced back to vulnerabilities in MOVEit Transfer, a file transfer software used by Fiserv
FortiGuard Labs, the research arm of security firm Fortinet, has uncovered a significant evolution in the IZ1H9 Mirai-based DDoS campaign. Discovered in September and described in an advisory published on Monday, the new campaign has reportedly rapidly updated its arsenal of exploits, incorporating 13 distinct payloads, targeting various vulnerabilities across different Internet of Things (IoT)
Social Media One of the biggest threats to watch out for on social media is fraud perpetrated by people who aren’t who they claim to be. Here’s how to recognize them. Phil Muncaster 06 Oct 2023 • , 5 min. read Some 4.5 billion people worldwide, or almost 55 percent of the global population, have
Digital Security Your preparedness to deal with cyberattacks is key for lessening the impact of a successful incident – even in home and small business environments Tony Anscombe 09 Oct 2023 • , 3 min. read Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CSAM) is upon us again. Much like European Cyber Security Month (ECSM), this important initiative is
Oct 10, 2023NewsroomPassword Security / Technology Google on Tuesday announced the ability for all users to set up passkeys by default, five months after it rolled out support for the FIDO Alliance-backed passwordless standard for Google Accounts on all platforms. “This means the next time you sign in to your account, you’ll start seeing prompts
Oct 10, 2023NewsroomServer Security / Vulnerability Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudflare, and Google on Tuesday said they took steps to mitigate record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that relied on a novel technique called HTTP/2 Rapid Reset. The layer 7 attacks were detected in late August 2023, the companies said in a coordinated disclosure. The cumulative
Two leading US government security agencies have shared the top 10 most common cybersecurity misconfigurations, in a bid to improve baseline security among public and private sector organizations. The report from the NSA and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) was compiled from their red and blue team assessments, as well agency hunt and incident
Ensuring sensitive data remains confidential, protected from unauthorized access, and compliant with data privacy regulations is paramount. Data breaches result in financial and reputational damage but also lead to legal consequences. Therefore, robust data access security measures are essential to safeguard an organization’s assets, maintain customer trust, and meet regulatory requirements. A comprehensive Data Security
Video The backdoor can exfiltrate files, manipulate Windows registry keys, and execute commands that are capable of performing various actions on a victim’s machine 06 Oct 2023 This week, ESET researchers released their findings about a cyberespionage campaign that took aim at a Guyanese governmental entity. Named Operation Jacana by ESET, the campaign deployed a
Despite the takedown of the Qakbot threat gang’s infrastructure by the FBI in late August, some of the group’s affiliates are still deploying ransomware through phishing campaigns, according to Cisco Talos. Talos threat researchers found new evidence that a threat actor linked to the Qakbot malware loader (also known as QBot or Pinkslipbot) has been
Oct 06, 2023NewsroomCyber Crime / Cryptocurrency As much as $7 billion in cryptocurrency has been illicitly laundered through cross-chain crime, with the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group linked to the theft of roughly $900 million of those proceeds between July 2022 and July of this year. “As traditional entities such as mixers continue to be subject
In February 2023, ESET researchers detected a spearphishing campaign targeting a governmental entity in Guyana. While we haven’t been able to link the campaign, which we named Operation Jacana, to any specific APT group, we believe with medium confidence that a China-aligned threat group is behind this incident. In the attack, the operators used a
Amazon Web Services (AWS) said it will require multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all privileged accounts starting mid-2024, in a bid to improve default security and reduce the risk of account hijacking. From that time, any customers signing into the AWS Management Console with the root user of an AWS Organizations management account will be required
Oct 06, 2023NewsroomCyber Attack / Malware Threat actors have been observed targeting semiconductor companies in East Asia with lures masquerading as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) that are designed to deliver Cobalt Strike beacons. The intrusion set, per EclecticIQ, leverages a backdoor called HyperBro, which is then used as a conduit to deploy the commercial
Chinese threat actors are positioning themselves to deploy major cyber-attacks against US critical national infrastructure (CNI) in the event of an escalation of hostilities between the two nations. Microsoft’s latest Digital Defense Report (MDDR) observed a rise in Chinese state-affiliated actors, such as Circle Typhoon and Volt Typhoon, targeting sectors like transportation, utilities, medical infrastructure
Oct 05, 2023NewsroomRansomware / Malware Despite the disruption to its infrastructure, the threat actors behind the QakBot malware have been linked to an ongoing phishing campaign since early August 2023 that led to the delivery of Ransom Knight (aka Cyclops) ransomware and Remcos RAT. This indicates that “the law enforcement operation may not have impacted
We Live Progress, Digital Security In an increasingly complex and interconnected digital landscape, personal cybersecurity empowers you to protect your data, privacy and digital well-being Phil Muncaster 03 Oct 2023 • , 5 min. read We live in a digitally connected world. And for the most part, this has made our lives immeasurably better. Advances
Human Security has exposed a significant monetization method employed by a sophisticated cyber-criminal operation. This operation involved the sale of backdoored off-brand mobile and CTV (Connected TV) Android devices through major retailers, which had originated from repackaging factories in China. The scheme, known as BADBOX, deploys the Triada malware as a “backdoor” on various devices
Oct 04, 2023The Hacker NewsSaaS Security / Enterprise Security Today, mid-sized companies and their CISOs are struggling to handle the growing threat of SaaS security with limited manpower and tight budgets. Now, this may be changing. By focusing on the critical SaaS security needs of these companies, a new approach has emerged that can be
The Madagascar government likely used the Cytrox-developed Predator spyware to conduct political domestic surveillance ahead of the country’s presidential election, according to research by Sekoia. French threat intelligence firm Sekoia’s latest technical analysis of Cytrox’s infrastructure was prompted by recent revelations that Predator had been installed on the iPhone of the former Egyptian MP Ahmed
Oct 03, 2023The Hacker NewsAPI Security / Data Security APIs, also known as application programming interfaces, serve as the backbone of modern software applications, enabling seamless communication and data exchange between different systems and platforms. They provide developers with an interface to interact with external services, allowing them to integrate various functionalities into their own
Thousands of organizations around the world are using industrial control systems (ICS) exposed to the public internet, new analysis from Bitsight has found. The firm discovered nearly 100,000 directly exposed ICS across its inventory of global organizations, including Fortune 1000 businesses. This internet exposure makes it easier for threat actors to infiltrate and control physical
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